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I would buy this watch, but I'm completely convinced that Android Wear is more spot-on for the watch UX with their card based user interface. It does have all these features, the glaces, the actionable notification, extension apps, but from UI standpoint it is just a card. Also, the UI on Android Wear is prettier. I'm not sure why Apple is using black ugly buttons that remind me on very first Nokia multimedia color phones.

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I agree; I think for a wearable to be successful it has to be passive and useful. Apple's watch seems too interactive to me but it does look nice and I think it'll have enough passive features to be good.

They say the HIG that the black background is to create the illusion of a bezel-less display, which I guess it does pretty well. Not the best solution but it's not a problem for me.

I don't get the watch-craze at all, as it adds 0 things you couldn't do before. However, i m looking forward to Android Auto, something that i wanted for a long time.

> as it adds 0 things you couldn't do before

That's your opinion. For me it has been life-changing.

Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm in the same boat as return0 -- I just can't imagine what utility I'd get out of a touchscreen on my wrist.

Personally, I really enjoy the automatic sleep/activity tracking that my Pebble provides (via Misfit app)

Besides that, I mainly use it for "watch" stuff.

That said, it is really nice to be able to get notifications without taking my phone out in certain contexts—bicycling, walking, in a pool, phone charging in other room, etc.

How so? I say this as a Pebble user that was thoroughly underwhelmed. There was the marginal benefit of receiving notifications on my wrist, but it was never worth having yet another device to charge and worry about. My watch now sits in my desk drawer.

I was under the impression it was for battery life.

It does use an OLED display and we know black uses less power.

I'm not ranting about the black background. I'm ranting about the buttons and the way they look:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

Moreover, there is no way this watch is pulling over 24 hours battery life. They said that they expect you to charge it everyday. In that sense, the power should not be much of an issue as big as the comments here presume. LG G Watch easily lasts 24 hours, and Moto 360 easily goes 16-20 hours. So unless this watch lasts 2 days or more, screwing up the UI makes little sense, you'd be charging it every night anyway.

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